Gill: 949 books
The Troubadours Quartet Boxset
Song at Dawn, Bladesong, Plaint for Provence, Song Hereafter
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Like Game of Thrones with real history. The complete set of four award-winning books: Historical Fiction series The Troubadours Quartet
Four Discovered Diamonds Awards; Historical Novel Society Editor’s Choice; Three out of three Readers' Favorite 5* Awards; Winner of the Global Ebooks Award for...
by Eric Gill
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Eric Gill's opinionated manifesto on typography argues that 'a good piece of lettering is as beautiful a thing to see as any sculpture or painted picture'. This essay explores the place of typography in culture and is also a moral treatise celebrating the role of craftsmanship in an industrial age....
The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina
New Roots in the Old North State
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Over recent decades, the Southeast has become a new frontier for Latin American migration to and within the United States, and North Carolina has had one of the fastest growing Latino populations in the nation. Here, Hannah Gill offers North Carolinians from all walks of life a better understanding...
Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community
A Literary Study of Political Identities, 1650–1700
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Focussing on Quaker pamphlet literature of the commonwealth and restoration period, Catie Gill seeks to explore and explain women’s presence as activists, writers, and subjects within the early Quaker movement. Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community draws on contemporary resources such...
The School of the Americas
Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2004
Located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, the School of the Americas (soa) is a U.S. Army center that has trained more than sixty thousand soldiers and police, mostly from Latin America, in counterinsurgency and combat-related skills since it was founded in 1946. So widely documented is the participation...
by Sam Gill, Richard Carp, Rebecca Sachs Norris
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
In this provocative study of dancing, Sam Gill examines the interpretive styles of a variety of cultural dance traditions in discourse with the philosophic traditions of Schiller, Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras, Derrida, Leroi-Gourhan, and Baudrillard. As a scholar of religion, Gill provides special consideration...
Speaking of Gill
Insights into Public Speaking
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
Speaking of Gill is a primer which sets forth the basics and fundamentals of public speaking.
It is intended for those who engage in public speaking as well as for those who have an interest in the subject matter.
It sets forth the excerpts from many of the great speeches of the last five decades;...
An Argument for Same-Sex Marriage
Religious Freedom, Sexual Freedom, and Public Expressions of Civic Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The relationship between religious belief and sexuality as personal attributes exhibits some provocative comparisons. Despite the nonestablishment of religion in the United States and the constitutional guarantee of free exercise, Christianity functions as the religious and moral standard in America....
by John Gill
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Many memoirs of the American Civil War were written, as John Gill's was, for the eyes of family and friends only. It is our good fortune that their accounts survived. One of the benefits of private publishing was that the author felt less necessity to censor themselves or conform their writing to...
A Century of Violence in a Red City
Popular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights in Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
In A Century of Violence in a Red City Lesley Gill provides insights into broad trends of global capitalist development, class disenfranchisement and dispossession, and the decline of progressive politics. Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions, neighborhood organizations, and working...
Educational Philosophy in the French Enlightenment
From Nature to Second Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Though Emile is still considered the central pedagogical text of the French Enlightenment, a myriad of lesser-known thinkers paved the way for Rousseau's masterpiece. Natasha Gill traces the arc of these thinkers as they sought to reveal the correlation between early childhood experiences and the...
by Robin Gill
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
In this book, Robin Gill argues that moral passion and rational ethical deliberation are not enemies, and that moral passion often lurks behind many apparently rational ethical commitments. He also contends that though moral passion is a key component of truly selfless moral action, without rational...
Society Shaped by Theology
Sociological Theology Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Over the last thirty years a number of theologians have been using aspects of sociology alongside the more traditional resources of philosophy. In turn, sociologists with an interest in theology have also contributed to an interaction between theology and sociology. The time is right to revisit the...
Whites Recall the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham
We Didn’t Know it was History until after it Happened
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This illuminating volume examines how the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama developed as a trauma of culture. Throughout the book, Gill asks why the “four little girls” killed in the bombing became part of the nation’s collective memory, while two black...